Software Architecture at Siemens: The challenges, our approaches, and some open issues

Borrmann, Lothar; Paulisch, Frances

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35563-4_31

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“…According to Kruchten (1999), the software architecture helps us to (i) understand what the system does and how the system works, (ii) think and work in the pieces of the system, (iii) reuse the parts of the system to build other ones, and (iv) extend the system. Attention to software architecture is essential for successful product developments (Borrmann & Paulisch, 1999). Today, the importance of a well-designed software architecture for large-scale system developments is established (Borrmann & Paulisch, 1999).…”

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“…Attention to software architecture is essential for successful product developments (Borrmann & Paulisch, 1999). Today, the importance of a well-designed software architecture for large-scale system developments is established (Borrmann & Paulisch, 1999). As the technology evolves, customers and users expect capable systems that can achieve multiple goals at the same time.…”

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Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

Demir¹

2015

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An architecture outlines what a system can or cannot do. Attention to software architecture is essential for successful product developments. Therefore, software architecture development is a crucial phase in software development process. As the software intensive systems become complex, software architects face with the challenges of dealing with multiple sometimes conflicting concerns at the same time. Satisfaction of quality requirements can be achieved via a good software architecture design. Since the quality requirements are multi-faceted, the software architects have to consider many diverse aspects and provide a software architectural solution that can optimally satisfy functional and quality requirements. Such a solution requires a multi-view software architecture design as the result of a systematic architecture development process. Case studies are helpful in bridging the gap between academia and industry. Research studies including carefully designed case studies will help practitioners to understand the theoretical concepts and apply novel research findings in their practices. Hence, in this study, we explain a multi-view software architecture design process with the help of a mission-critical defense system development case study. In the study, we explain the multi-view software architecture design step by step starting with identifying the system context, requirements, constraints, and quality expectations. We further outline the strategies, techniques, designs, and rationales used to satisfy a diverse set of requirements with a particular software architecture pattern. We also introduce a novel architectural style, named as "star-controller architectural style". We explain the use of the style with a related discussion.

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Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

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2015

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The advent of mobile communications supported on smart mobile devices like smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer a unique opportunity to develop efficient tools for mobile collaboration while on the move.

Moreover, these devices present features that only fixed computers could offer not so long ago, such as email and Internet connectivity.

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MP-Collaborator: A Mobile Collaboration Tool in Pervasive Environment

Silva

Neves

Denko

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

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Abstract-Teams can sometimes reach hundreds of professionals distributed over several countries [2].In the search for improving collaborative work over the Internet scientists at CERN developed the hypertext markup language (HTML) and the world wide web (WWW) [3]. The Internet became a pervasive technology for collaboration and an absolutely indispensable tool for years to come.The advent of mobile communications supported on smart mobile devices like smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer a unique opportunity to develop efficient tools for mobile collaboration while on the move.Moreover, these devices present features that only fixed computers could offer not so long ago, such as email and Internet connectivity. Mobile devices can accelerate work and simplify coordination processes [4].Companies are spending fortunes on communication between personnel for collaborative work. However, sometimes a decision is not taken because a person is not available, does not answer the phone or, basically, is unreachable. More than knowing the location of such person, it is important to acknowledge the person's current status, thus creating a user profile. The user profile must provide enough information about availability, location and possible communication means. Then, location-awareness must be combined with context-awareness, in order to effectively allow communication between the different human resources of a given corporation, managing user's presence inside the corporation.The popularity of instant messaging applications can be explained easily with the combination of real-time chat and profile status exchange. However, such approach implies that the other user is also connected to reply. When a mobile scenario is taken into account, constant data networks connectivity greatly impacts battery life and communications costs, while GSM/UMTS may be available, allowing a simple phone call or short message (SMS). Our application takes advantage of current mobile technologies in behalf of the user, where other approaches lack [5][6][7].The MP-Collaborator application is all about user presence inside an organization. This mobile application augments a mobile device by combining location information, mobile communication (call and SMS), scheduling information (through Pocket Outlook Calendar), creating and sharing the user profile. The communication paradigm allows server-less user interaction, through peer-to-peer communication among different mobile nodes.Mobile ubiquitous computing has evolved greatly since the appearance of the adequate mobile devices such as cell phones or PDAs, which feature technologies and functionalities such as Wi-Fi, 3G/GSM, GPS receiver; with processing power and

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“…It is not uncommon, for example, that a software engineering project involves over 1000 engineers distributed over 13 countries [2]. Collaborative tools support business processes, information management and knowledge sharing.…”

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A Web-based peer-to-peer architecture for collaborative nomadic working

Reif

Kirda²,

Gall³

et al.

Proceedings Tenth IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises. WET ICE 2

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With the recent advances in mobile computing, distributed organizations are facing a growing need for advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that support mobile working. The ability to use information effectively anywhere and anytime has become a key business success factor: Although many Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) systems have been introduced to date, technologies and architectures that support the collaboration of nomadic workers on a wide range of mobile devices, notebooks and personal computers is still a challenge. The Mobile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organizations Networking (MOTION}' project is aiming to design a highlyjexible, open and scalable ICT architecture for mobile collaboration. In this papeq we present the mobile collaboration requirements of two MOTION industry case studies, and highlight the advantages of a Web-based peer-to-peer architecture and for nomadic working.

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Software Architecture at Siemens: The challenges, our approaches, and some open issues

Cited by 5 publications

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Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

MP-Collaborator: A Mobile Collaboration Tool in Pervasive Environment

A Web-based peer-to-peer architecture for collaborative nomadic working

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